Teresa Churcher (born 7 January) is an English actress[1] whose film credits include Gosford Park,[2] Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist, Being Julia, Creation and The Woman in Black.
Her performance gained her positive reviews[3] and the part of Bertha, the 'naughty' kitchen maid, in Robert Altman's Gosford Park, for which she received a Screen Actors Guild Award.
[4] Film roles followed in Being Julia, as Charlotte in Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist,[5] in Creation[6] and The Woman in Black.
[7] Churcher has continued to appear in television shows such as Spooks, Agatha Christie's Poirot, The Last Detective, Holby City and Garrow's Law, as well as the television films of Ballet Shoes, Colditz and Belonging, amongst others.
Churcher returned to the stage in 2009 to play the lead role of Jane in The Girls of Slender Means at The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, gaining a Stage Award for Acting Excellence nomination.